Wang Huning

Wang Huning
王沪宁
10th Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
Incumbent
Assumed office 10 March 2023
Vice Chairpersons	See list Shi Taifeng Hu Chunhua Shen Yueyue Wang Yong Zhou Qiang Pagbalha Geleg Namgyai Edmund Ho Leung Chun-ying Bagatur Su Hui Shao Hong Gao Yunlong Chen Wu Mu Hong Xian Hui Wang Dongfeng Jiang Xinzhi Jiang Zuojun He Baoxiang Wang Guangqian Qin Boyong Zhu Yongxin Yang Zhen
Secretary-General	Wang Dongfeng
Preceded by	Wang Yang
First-ranked Secretary of the Secretariat of the Chinese Communist Party
In office 25 October 2017 – 23 October 2022
General Secretary	Xi Jinping
Preceded by	Liu Yunshan
Succeeded by	Cai Qi
Director of the Central Policy Research Office
In office October 2002 – October 2020
Deputy	He Yiting Zheng Xinli
General Secretary	Jiang Zemin Hu Jintao Xi Jinping
Preceded by	Teng Wensheng
Succeeded by	Jiang Jinquan
Other office held Director of the Office of the Central Comprehensively Deepening Reforms Commission Incumbent Assumed office 22 January 2014 Deputy Mu Hong Pan Shengzhou Chen Yixin Preceded by Office established Chairman of the Central Guidance Commission on Building Spiritual Civilization In office 17 November 2017 – October 2022 Deputy Sun Chunlan Huang Kunming Preceded by Liu Yunshan Succeeded by Cai Qi
Personal details
Born	(1955-10-06) 6 October 1955 (age 69) Shanghai, People's Republic of China
Political party	Chinese Communist Party (1984–present)
Spouse	See list Zhou Qi Xiao Jialing[1]
Children	1 son
Alma mater	Fudan University East China Normal University
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	王沪宁
Traditional Chinese	王滬寧
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Wáng Hùníng IPA [wǎŋ xû.nǐŋ]

Wang Huning (Chinese: 王沪宁; pinyin: Wáng Hùníng; born 6 October 1955) is a Chinese political theorist and one of the top leaders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He is currently the chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). He has been a leading ideologist in the country since the 1980s. He has been a member of the CCP's Politburo Standing Committee, China's top decision-making body since 2017, and has been its fourth-ranking member since 2022.

A former academic, Wang was a professor of international politics and dean of the law school at Fudan University. During this time, he gained attention due to his belief in "neoconservatism", which held that a strong leadership was needed for China's stability and political reforms. He started to work for the CCP leadership in 1995 as a director of a research team at the CCP's Central Policy Research Office (CPRO). He became the CPRO's deputy director in 1998, and was promoted to the party's Central Committee and director of the office in 2002, remaining the latter until 2020, the longest tenure in the office. He assisted CCP general secretary Jiang Zemin, and was believed to be instrumental in developing Jiang's signature political theory, the Three Represents. He later became a close confidant of CCP general secretary Hu Jintao, believed to be key to developing his primary theory, Scientific Outlook on Development, and became a secretary of the CCP secretariat in 2007.

Wang became a member of the CCP Politburo in 2012, and is believed to have developed close relations with CCP general secretary Xi Jinping, becoming one of his closer advisors. In 2017, he was promoted to the 5th-ranked member of the Politburo Standing Committee and the first-ranking secretary of the CCP Secretariat. He has also chaired leading commissions on ideology and reforms and is believed to have been instrumental in developing key concepts under Xi, including Xi Jinping Thought, Chinese-style modernization, the Chinese Dream, and the Belt and Road Initiative. In 2022, he was succeeded by Cai Qi as the first secretary, and became the 4th-ranking member of the PSC. He became the CPPCC chairman in March 2023, succeeding Wang Yang. He also became the deputy leader of the Central Leading Group for Taiwan Affairs, becoming responsible for political relations with Taiwan.

Widely regarded as the "Gray Eminence" of the CCP, Wang is believed to be its chief ideologue as well as principal architect behind the official political ideologies of three CCP general secretaries since the 1990s. He has held significant influence over policy and decision-making of all three paramount leaders, an exceptionally rare feat in Chinese politics. Wang believes that a strong, centralized state is needed in China to resist foreign influence, an idea that has been influential under Xi Jinping.